Re: GnuCash page on GO site

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 04:40, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> >> A better overview of gal would be nice.
>> >
>> > Just call it 'libevolution' and ignore it.
>> 
>> Wish I could -- it's a dependency of either libgtkhtml or libgnomeui
>> -- I don't recall which.  So I can't ignore it.   Wish I could.
>
> Why do you need libgtkhtml and/or libgnomeui?

We use libgtkhtml because GnuCash reports are generated into HTML and
displayed to the user using GtkHTML.  We need libgnomeui because we
use Druids and DateEdit and a few other widgets.

> Just to note, from perusing Gentoo ebuilds:
> * libgnomeui is a dependency of libgtkhtml
> * libgal is _not_ a dependency of either

Uh, sure it is -- at least at the gnome-1.4 level:

--> ldd /usr/athena/lib/libgtkhtml-1.1.so.3.0.4 
        libgal.so.23 => /usr/athena/lib/libgal.so.23 (0x400a0000)
        ...

It is in gnome-2 as well:
--> ldd /usr/athena/lib/libgtkhtml-3.0.so.2.1.1 
        libgnomeui-2.so.0 => /usr/athena/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0 (0x4009e000)
        ...
        libgal-2.0.so.5 => /usr/athena/lib/libgal-2.0.so.5 (0x40397000)

So you are confused.

> Jody has recently been on a mission to eliminate all Gnome-dependent
> dependencies, in order to achieve a cross-platform Gnumeric release.
>
> Perhaps this would be a wise goal for GnuCash-2.2?

Maybe -- let us finish gnucash-2.0 first before we start talking about
2.2.  We're having enough problems with resources to get 2.0 out the
door.  ;)

-derek

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